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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Dust – Heavy Flak Grenadiers

Late
spring a new Kickstarter appeared, Dust: Operation
Babylon. I knew my pal Thomas had bought into the system
earlier, and asked him about it. He said something like “Let’s play a game”,
and I’m sure he grinned evilly saying that…

That's an awful lot of enemies. I'm not sure this really works...

Said
and done, we had a short and fun game of Dust Warfare over a couple of beers. It turned out this is a good beer
and pretzels type of game and I rather enjoyed it. Figures are really nice. Fun theme.
What’s not to like?

I
jumped into the Kickstarter. Laffe (also grinning evilly) dumped his
bought-but-not-played-with minis on me, as did one of his pals.

So
I suddenly had a bunch of minis and more to come from the Kickstarter (very,
very late. They were supposed to deliver in August, still nothing…)

I
needed some respite from Brimstone figures and especially the Night Stranglers,
so the first unit hit the painting table – Heavy Flak Grenadiers.

These are heavily
armoured troops wielding Fliegerfausts, a real
weapon used sparingly in the very last days of the short-lived 3rd
Reich. In Dust the year is 1947 and the Axis troops are de-nazified.

Anyway,
to have a chance of ever getting painted models on the gaming table I decided
to go for simple paint-schemes – no camo-smocks or anything fancy.

My rating system

5 - A masterpiece. You have to read/see/visit.4 - Really good. Strongly recommended it if it is a subject of interest, and probably worth reading/seeing/visiting if not.3 – It’s OK. If it’s a subject you’re interested in, it’s probably worth reading/seeing/visiting. Otherwise you can probably skip it.2 - Well, not really... If it’s your subject you could possibly find something in it worth your while. Otherwise stay clear.1 - Stay clear. This is a waste of your time.